Psycho (movie)

Fall prestige pics, maybe. A Shane Carruth Sundance puzzler, sure. Halloween? It's not the holiday one immediately thinks of for movies that tickle the noggin. That hasn’t stopped members of Mensa from choosing their favorite movies themed to the holiday. A new survey from the organization asked members to choose their Halloween favorites. The results were compiled in a top 10 ranking, released several days ago. What do the highest-achieving minds of the nation think of the crop of horror movies over the decades? There is, not surprisingly, some Hitchcock on the list — a couple of titles from the suspense maestro, in fact, including "Psycho" at the head of...

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